Zayn Malik's Thailand Girl Lauren Richardson Explains THAT Photo

Lauren Richardson, who you might recognise as the girl who had her picture taken with Zayn Malik and sparked a thousand rumours, has finally revealed all about what really happened that night in Thailand.

Currently promoting her appearance on ITV2's Love Island, which begins later this week, Lauren explains that it really was all quite innocent.

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"It just got blown out of proportion. The picture was just a picture," she told MailOnline.

"I went into the nightclub where he was, not knowing he was in there. I went in there because it was a free bar for three hours. So that was the reason I was in there," Lauren added.

"They were in the VIP section and I managed to get in there. I even told my friends I didn't know how I got in there because I looked like an absolute tramp. Wearing a pair of shorts worth three pounds from Dagenham market, hair scruffed up in a bun, no makeup on and we, the people that I was with, went over."

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"We were dancing up in the VIP bit and I went over to ask for a picture. There was no problem and I took the picture. I then posted my picture and it just went absolutely mental. So there's no juicy story behind it which I think everyone was dying to hear. It's just a picture."

While the backlash from the dedicated Directioners was entirely unexpected.

"It was really intense because when I put the picture up they just kind of shouted out "We hate you" and "You should die, you're a home wrecker". They would put up pictures of gun faces and say "Share you're location, we want to see you. We're going to hunt you down"."

Adding: "It was quite extreme at the time and my friend's was like turn off the notifications, it's the best way to try and ignore it. But every picture I put up it was just hate on me."

Love Island begins on Sunday 7 June on ITV2.

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